A Story With A Moral
- Kind
- Magazine Article
- Date
- 1973
- Publisher
- Mathematical Gazette (Jun 1973), 57, No. 400, 86-87
- Volume / pages
- (Jun 1973), 57, No. 400, 86-87
- Retrieved
- Jun 21, 2012
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Mathematicians Who Can Only Generalize or Specialize
A mathematician who can only generalise is like a monkey who can only climb UP a tree. ... And a mathematician who can only specialise is like a monkey who can only climb DOWN a tree. In fact neither the up monkey nor the down monkey is a viable creature. A real monkey must find food and escape his enemies and so must…